I learned a valuable fishing lesson catching my first Steelhead trout

I've been trying 3 years to be able to land one of these beauties. They are relatively easy to catch if you have experience but I started with none. I didn't have anyone to show me how it's done. I've been fishing for the past few weeks in the small streams that feed into the nearby river (Great Lakes). I saw plenty of them, but none liked my presentation and avoided my spawn bags. As a side note, I want to see how close I could get to catching one with my hand and I was surprisingly close. (Would have been illegal if I did but whatever). Fast forward to 2 days ago, I was fishing a base of a small waterfall with a whole bunch of trout in a hole. I tried and tried, but I couldn't catch one. At that point, another fisherman appeared. He asked politely if he could fish the area that I was fishing and let him (might as well see if he has the secret to catching them). He also offered me a beer. He caught 2 steelies within 5 minutes. I wasn't mad but kind of embarrassed. He asks me what I was using and I replied with spawn sacks. He said he was using a haired jig with maggots. He the proceeded to offer me some maggots. Luckily, I had some jigs on me and tried what he did. Within 3 casts, I had caught this one. It was an awesome moment. He then comes up to me to hand me the rest of his maggots. I asked him how much he wanted for the container of them. He wanted 3.50. It was at that moment when I realized he was eighteen stories tall and from the paleolithic era. It was that goddamn Loch Ness monster. I said to the monster I ain't giving you no tree fiddy for these filthy maggots
But anyways, the guy was a bro at helping me. I'll make sure I help other fisherman if they have a hard time catching fish.
The fish was delicious BTW